[Lguest] lguest: unhandled trap
Ingo Molnar
mingo at elte.hu
Mon Oct 20 18:53:33 EST 2008
* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy at goop.org> wrote:
> Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> i think Xen can withstand DMI scanning just fine.
>>
>> without having seen any background, my general feeling is that lguest
>> should either do what Xen does and reserve the classic BIOS ranges
>> that we probe - or we should make DMI scanning more robust by making
>> sure real RAM ranges are never probed. (only ranges that the BIOS
>> itself marks as reserved in the e820 map)
>
> We considered doing that, but decided that there was so many other
> pieces of code around the place that assume that the ISA area is
> special, that just reserving it was the best course of action.
yeah - for _any_ virtual machine environment it's beneficial to look as
much like a normal PC as possible, because normal PCs is where the code
gets tested most.
Nevertheless if this is the only current roadblock for lguest then i
wouldnt find it objectionable to make DMI scanning more robust that way
- the two are complimentary. [ With an initial transitionary period of
generating printks and WARN()s when we try to scan general RAM areas. ]
Ingo
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